Apple working on an iPhone without physical buttons and Touch ID built into the display.

Rumor circulating for years: the Cupertino company is considering the idea of ​​creating an iPhone without physical buttons, integrating the biometric sensor Touch ID in display.

According to sources inside the industry of smartphones, Apple is developing a technology with which to implement a biometric sensor Touch ID within the matrix of the display. This may allow the production of devices with frames extremely reduced, since the physical Home button would no longer be required and that distinctive feature of the iPhone. It is a rumor discussed many times before, but you probably do not paleserà in very short periods.

The news comes from DigiTimes, sources that often turned out to be unreliable. It was verified that by AppleInsider, citing sources in the past have proved reliable, has been able to confirm what has been written by Taiwanese. It will not be a novelty that. We will see in a short time: the technology to achieve the iPhone without frames will not arrive before 2017 and, given minor upgrades to Apple, it is more likely that the Touch ID display in arrivals in the form provided for 2018.

Specifically, Apple is developing a proprietary solution for this to happen, a single chip to handle display and biometric sensor: ” Apple is developing a solution touch and display driver integration (TDDI) in a single chip for its iPhone, ” writes DigiTimes . ” It will complement even sensors for fingerprint scanning. The project will be implemented on future iPhone, which will display models in ultra-thin and small, allowing an overall design revolutionized no home button. ”

iPhone has always been very conservative in terms of design, with the home button which represented the single most easily recognizable of its design. Also several functions are connected to the same key, how to exit an application and return to the main Phone screen, select the app switcher and activate Siri. Apple will have to find a solution to allow access to these features, although we assume that the ideal candidate will be Force Touch, the technology that is able to perceive the difference between the touch and pressure produced on Apple Watch.